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Homer Rodeheaver and the rise of the gospel music industry

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From tent revivals to radio and records with a gospel music innovator Homer Rodeheaver merged evangelical hymns and African American spirituals with popular music to create a potent gospel style. Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo examine his enormous influence on gospel music against the backdrop of Christian music history and Rodeheaver's impact as a cultural and business figure.

Title Homer Rodeheaver and the rise of the gospel music industry / Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo. [electronic resource]
Publisher Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Creation Date 2021
Notes Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Prologue -- Southern Roots and Early Years -- Gospel Songs and Urban Revivalism -- Commercial Gospel Music -- New Technology to Promote an Old Story -- The Mission of Rainbow Records -- Spirituals and Minstrelsy -- Jim Crow Revivalism Meets the Klan -- Preserving and Exporting the Gospel Songs -- Falling Out of Step at the Close of an Era -- Epilogue. "It's Up to You, Rody, to Free Them".
Series Music in American life
Illinois scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (308 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997011505520005171
MARC RECORDS
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